Androscoggin Historical Society genealogy program Feb. 8 looks at Jordan House

AUBURN — The Androscoggin Historical Society’s annual Genealogy Program for 2020 will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in the Androscoggin Community Room of the Auburn Public Library.

The program, “Deed and Title Research in Auburn: A Certain Parcel of Land and the Buildings Thereon,” will focus on the Charles A. Jordan House on Academy Street. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the house was built in 1881 and occupied by the Jordan family for its first 11 years. Presenters and discussion leaders Ethelind (Lin) Wright and Carol Thomas combine their years of experience and talents to explore the intersection of genealogy and land title research. Family historians and genealogists are generally familiar with census and vital records, but often overlook such resources as deeds for information about their ancestors. Deeds can provide some challenges to the unfamiliar.
Using the Jordan House as an example, Thomas will help untangle some of the difficulties of finding deeds and understanding what you found. She will share what she found in her search of the title to that property back to the founding of Androscoggin County. She will also examine other resources relating to the house, and to the Jordan family, from probate records and other sources to provide context to the story of the land and buildings.
Thomas worked as a title abstractor for a local law firm in the late 1980’s. She is currently researching several families trees, and serves as a library assistant for the Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society.
Wright will build on this foundation by discussing the families of subsequent owners and others connected with the house. She is a genealogist, Historian of the High Street Congregational Church, active member of the DAR and a former Director of the Androscoggin Historical Society.
The program is free of charge, although donations are accepted. For more information, contact the society at 207-784-0586 or info@androhist.org.